GPS Navigation – Sunday, April 12th

This one-day class teaches effective backcountry navigation and data collection skills using a hand-held GPS. Participants will also learn how to plot their GPS data onto three-dimensional maps using Google Earth.

You will learn to:

Read UTM coordinates using a GPS

Read Lat/Long coordinates using a GPS

Navigate to a specific point using a GPS unit, a compass and a map

Record a traveled path (track) using a GPS unit

Record a waypoint with a GPS unit and enter attribute information for future reference

Download, convert and view GPS data in Google Earth after an expedition

Participants must get to Hope with their own vehicles and travel to the field locations with their own vehicles (carpooling is encouraged). Field locations will be close to town and accessible via well-maintained roads.

If a registration is cancelled 7 days or more before a program starts, HMCOL will refund the program fee and equipment rental fees (as applicable) minus an administrative cost of $20 per person. Program and equipment rental fees will not be refunded if a cancellation is received less than 7 days before the start of a program. A program may be cancelled at the discretion of HMCOL. If a program is cancelled, participants will receive a full refund of program and equipment fees.

A NOTE ABOUT LIABILITY

Hope Mountain Centre carries liability insurance and maintains excellent safety records. Due to the nature of outdoor programs, these trips do involve some personal risk. Hope Mountain Centre assumes no responsibility for personal injury or damage to personal property and we will require each participant to sign a liability release and assumption of risk form before participating in this program.

Please be aware that activities typical of this program involve many risks, dangers and hazards including, but not limited to: accidents which occur during transportation or travel to and from events; slips and falls; loss of balance; impact, cold water immersion; repetitive strain injuries; dislocated shoulders; hypothermia, frostbite, sunburn; changing and inclement weather conditions including storms, blizzards, whiteouts and high wind; steepness of terrain, tree wells, crevasses; avalanches, cornices, landslides and falling ice, snow and objects; encounters with domestic or wild animals; negligence on the part of releasees and other participants.

While we love animals of all kinds, we ask that you please leave Fido at home.

Online registration is now closed. Please call us at 604-869-1274 to see if any spots are still available.

TRIP LEADERS

Anders Hopperstead

Lead Instructor

Anders is a freelance mapmaker and GPS data collection specialist who has hiked and mapped hundreds of miles of trail across North America in the past decade. Raised in Maine, Anders and his wife Shawna moved to British Columbia in December 2009 for Shawna’s Master’s Degree program at UBC in Vancouver.

Kelly Pearce

Program Director

Kelly is a naturalist and outdoor educator. He is a Hope resident and Program Director for the Hope Mountain Centre. Kelly worked for 14 years as a park naturalist at Manning Provincial Park, and has a detailed knowledge of the natural and human history of the Fraser River and Cascade Mountains